Despite Setbacks, EA Officially Confirms Star Wars: Battlefront 3

After years of false starts and conflicting rumors, Star Wars: Battlefront 3 finally seems to have some real momentum behind it. Electronic Arts has confirmed that DICE and Respawn Entertainment are joining forces on a new shooter, a move reliable outlets like Variety have tied to the long-awaited Battlefront sequel.

Admittedly, the timing is bittersweet, since the announcement arrived in the same thread that revealed EA is shutting down BioWare, cancelling the next Mass Effect, and cutting around 400 jobs in the company, which is around 3% of their entire workforce.

What EA Has Actually Confirmed

Battlefront 3 is in the pipeline | Credit: Electronic Arts

The news broke on October 21 via an internal memo titled “Building EA’s Next Chapter” addressing a restructuring that will cut roughly 3% of the company’s global workforce. The memo, from studio chief Cam Weber and COO David Tinson, confirmed two major casualties: closing BioWare and scrapping the next Mass Effect game.

On a more positive note for shooter fans, the same memo confirmed that DICE and Respawn Entertainment will collaborate on a future project, citing the commercial success of Battlefield 6 as a reason to keep investing in the genre. Most importantly, EA did not attach a name to this collaboration in its own announcement.

A Bittersweet Battlefront 3 Reveal Amid Major Studio Cuts

EA has officially scrapped the next Mass Effect game | Credit: BioWare

The excitement does not arrive without a setback. The same announcement that pointed towards the new shooter also confirmed that EA was shutting down BioWare, a 30-year-old legacy studio, effectively cancelling the next Mass Effect game, and also laying off 400 employees as part of a broader company restructuring.

It’s also worth tempering expectations slightly: as EA has not formally confirmed the project’s name or scope, the Battlefront 3 label is still coming from sources rather than an official EA statement. That said, the pairing of DICE with Respawn, two studios that have previously independently worked on Star Wars projects, makes the identification hard to dispute.

The franchise had been left dormant since Star Wars: Battlefront II launched in 2017 to not a welcome reception thanks to its microtransaction-heavy progression system. However, this time it admittedly feels different, with Battlefield 6 giving the studio fresh confidence in its shooter pipeline.

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